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Hello,
I can reproduce the exact same error as Éric. The end of the output is a 
little bit more informative here:
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call
/bin/sh: line 1: 13513 Aborted CC='gcc -pthread' 
LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared ' OPT='-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py build
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 134
I only kept the part of the log that is output if I rerun "make". The 
number 13513 must be a PID number. It is not stable across invocations.
Running just "./python -E ./setup.py build", or just "./python setup.py 
build" does also abort with
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call
Aborted
The instructions to reproduce, used in my home directory (which has a 
ASCII path), are:
svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/py3k
cd py3k/
export LC_ALL=C
export LANG=C
./configure --prefix=/home/baptiste/Desktop/Téléchargements/PyInstall
make
make
./python -E ./setup.py build
./python setup.py build
The svn revision pulled was 85926.
Hope this helps,
Baptiste